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Israel Zangwill
February 14, 1864 - August 1, 1926
Nationality: English
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: English Novelist

Everything changes but change.

   

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

   

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

   

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

   

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

   

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

   

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

   

New York is the great stone desert.

   

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

   

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

   

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

   

It takes two men to make one brother.

   

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